So interesting Remote Enable RDP work today...

[Melbosa]

Well I had this computer that:

• Wasn't on the domain
• RPC wouldn't allow remote management
• Registry was not accessible from Remote
• Could hit an administrative share
• Could not remotely manage the firewall policies

And I REALLY WANTED TO RDP to the computer.

Well here is how I did it, and I've been looking through the PSTools to find even more kewl things...



PSTools from SysInternals is needed - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896649.aspx

C:\PSTools>PSExec.exe \\RemoteComputerName netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable
C:\PSTools>PSExec.exe \\RemoteComputerName REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /V fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f


Thought this would be kewl to share for us Windows Peeps.

[Lazybones]

Nice fix... I have used pstools for many odd remote admin tasks, the funny thing is that I often forget to use it...

[Tom]

C:\PSTools>PSExec.exe \\CEOSCOMPUTER netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable
C:\PSTools>PSExec.exe \\CEOSCOMPUTER REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /V fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

[Thorin]

C:\PSTools>PSExec.exe \\CEOSCOMPUTER netsh firewall set service remotedesktop enable
C:\PSTools>PSExec.exe \\CEOSCOMPUTER REG ADD "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server" /V fDenyTSConnections /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Took me a couple of re-reads before I realized what you'd changed...